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THICKER THAN BLOOD played to rave reviews at the April 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’ve been participating the LGBTQ+ movement in Taiwan since a few years ago for the same-sex marriage legalization. When we finally get the same-sex marriage legalized. I thought the mission was done until… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Liang-Chun Lin (THICKER THAN BLOOD)

ENTER NIRVANA played to rave reviews at the April 2021 Dance & Music Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Weird and long story I’ll try and keep short. I had a small operation while working on another short film Puppy. This operation unfortunately didn’t go as planned which resulted in needed… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker/Actor Lindsay Bennett-Thompson (ENTER NIRVANA)

MOMENTO MORI played to rave reviews at the April 2021 Dance & Music Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’ve played the piano since I was a little kid and Jerry Lee Lewis was always a strong influence for me. I always loved the mental image of him lighting his piano… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker/Musician Ami Hanna (MOMENTO MORI)

INFECTED played to rave reviews at the April 2021 Dance & Music Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated and angry with the events unfolded over the past decade. The denial and self-delusion of so many close friends and family members over what is really happening was… Continue reading Interview Alfonso Moreno (INFECTED)

Lat.Copiare played to rave reviews at the April 2021 DANCE & MUSIC Festival. What motivated you to make this film? It was my diploma in printmaking in 2006. I asked myself why to draw an image, when I can make a copy of it. So I started using copy machines for prints and finally animated… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Claudia Ungersbäck (Lat.Copiare)

The Eye and Eye’s Delight played to rave reviews at the April 2021 Dance & Music Film Festival. 1. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this short? It took about 3 months from the first time the director Marshall proposed the idea to me. Some… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Marcel Canzona (The Eye and Eye’s Delight)

NAïADE played to rave reviews at the April 2021 Experimental, Dance, Music Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I made this film initially because I came across a sculpture in downtown Montreal that was a reflection pool- I had never seen anything like it before. At the time, the MeToo era was… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Mistaya Hemingway (NAïADE)

ORO was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the April 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? What prompted me to make this film was the need to seek beauty in a moment of suffering. Beauty is not made by us, but is given to us and for this… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Francesca Malinverno (ORO)

OUR SEA OF WASTE was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the April 2021 ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? We saw videos of surgical masks and gloves shot by Opération Mer Propre last spring and wanted to know more about how the pandemic was affecting pollution in the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmakers Morade Azzouz, Anca Ulea (OUR SEA OF WASTE)

THIS IS THE WAY played to rave reviews at the April 2021 COMEDY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I was very fortunate to work on season 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian stunt doubling a couple of actresses. I naturally became a fan of the show and wanted to do… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Lauren Mary Kim (THIS IS THE WAY)